September 2022
Start of a new semester!
Come and join us! We seek a new graduate student to fill a funded project examining road noise effects on prey responses to predation risk
Welcome to the lab undergraduates Amy Nickerson and Vanessa Costa
July 2022
New summer OUR award to Haleigh Nogueira!
New students Celina Costa (UMass Honours) and Ivy Yen (UMaine Phd) to join the lab.
Lots more papers to read
February 2022
CONGRATS to Olivia Aguiar on getting into Grad School!
Congrats to Olivia and Bella for accepted talk and poster at the upcoming BEM
Congrats to Eleanor for an accepted to at BEM
New paper out in Oikos - see details below!
January 2022
So sad that the Predator-Prey Interaction GRC 2022 is delayed. But happy we will all be safe.
CONGRATS to Alyssa Giordano for submitting her undergraduate research
June 2020
SOOO excited to welcome Carolina Ganci and Sam Sonnega to the lab!!
The Sheriff lab has somehow become popular with 3 undergraduate honours students joining us!
-welcome Sophia Maloney-Buckley, Olivia Aguiar, and Bella Mancini
October 2020
We are looking for new graduate students to join the lab in 2021. Multiple positions examining predator-prey interactions in small mammals or marine intertidal.
Congratulations to Dr. Justine Smith on yet ANOTHER amazing paper examining puma-vicuna interactions (see below for pdf)!!
July 2020
HUGE congratulations to Amy Shipley on winning the Hanski Prize for best Student Highlighted Research paper 2019
Congratulations to our undergraduate Alyssa Giordano on her summer research fellowship!!
We have owl playbacks hooting away...
June 2020
Congratulations to DR. Louis Hunninck for successfully defending his PhD!
Congratulations to Leah McKay on successfully completing her Master's Proposal Defense!
April 2020
Congratulations to Jessica Mohlman for being awarded the Stoddard-Burleigh-Sutton Award for excellence in wildlife conservation!!
See new papers by Michael and another by Jessica!
March 2020
Welcome two new undergrads to the lab Brian Hayden and Alyssa Giordano
February 2020
Congrats to Eleanor DiNuzzo, who was awarded a TAship to join our lab in September
Very excited and fortunate to have such an amazing student starting in the lab
January 2020
So much fun attending the 2020 GRC on Predator-Prey Interactions
Michael will be co-chairing (along side Dr. Bridie Allan) the 2024 meeting!
November 2019
New population science article out on a paper led by colleague Jerod Merkle about way in which science and management need to work together. https://wildlife.org/qa-reconnecting-wildlife-managers-and-researchers/
October 2019
Welcome to Eleanor DiNuzzo and Sarah Donelan for a brief but intense visit
So sad to see Louis Hunninck leave. What a great and productive time!
September 2019
Off to Finland to sit as an opponent to Joannes Van Cann dissertation!
The start of a new semester and teaching a new course in Ecology and Evolution - the course that got me first interested in Ecology!
July 2019
Louis Hunninck has joined us once again to finish off his PhD investigating the interactive consequences of climate-induced reductions in vegetation and human disturbance in free-living impala.
May 2019
Two new students, Leah McKay and Miles Valchar, have joined the lab to pursue their Master's Degree.
Southern Mountain Caribou research project got funded!!
March 2019
Microbiome - predation risk project got funded!
June 2018
We moved!! The Sheriff Lab has a new home at UMass Dartmouth.
Start of a new semester!
Come and join us! We seek a new graduate student to fill a funded project examining road noise effects on prey responses to predation risk
Welcome to the lab undergraduates Amy Nickerson and Vanessa Costa
July 2022
New summer OUR award to Haleigh Nogueira!
New students Celina Costa (UMass Honours) and Ivy Yen (UMaine Phd) to join the lab.
Lots more papers to read
February 2022
CONGRATS to Olivia Aguiar on getting into Grad School!
Congrats to Olivia and Bella for accepted talk and poster at the upcoming BEM
Congrats to Eleanor for an accepted to at BEM
New paper out in Oikos - see details below!
January 2022
So sad that the Predator-Prey Interaction GRC 2022 is delayed. But happy we will all be safe.
CONGRATS to Alyssa Giordano for submitting her undergraduate research
June 2020
SOOO excited to welcome Carolina Ganci and Sam Sonnega to the lab!!
The Sheriff lab has somehow become popular with 3 undergraduate honours students joining us!
-welcome Sophia Maloney-Buckley, Olivia Aguiar, and Bella Mancini
October 2020
We are looking for new graduate students to join the lab in 2021. Multiple positions examining predator-prey interactions in small mammals or marine intertidal.
Congratulations to Dr. Justine Smith on yet ANOTHER amazing paper examining puma-vicuna interactions (see below for pdf)!!
July 2020
HUGE congratulations to Amy Shipley on winning the Hanski Prize for best Student Highlighted Research paper 2019
Congratulations to our undergraduate Alyssa Giordano on her summer research fellowship!!
We have owl playbacks hooting away...
June 2020
Congratulations to DR. Louis Hunninck for successfully defending his PhD!
Congratulations to Leah McKay on successfully completing her Master's Proposal Defense!
April 2020
Congratulations to Jessica Mohlman for being awarded the Stoddard-Burleigh-Sutton Award for excellence in wildlife conservation!!
See new papers by Michael and another by Jessica!
March 2020
Welcome two new undergrads to the lab Brian Hayden and Alyssa Giordano
February 2020
Congrats to Eleanor DiNuzzo, who was awarded a TAship to join our lab in September
Very excited and fortunate to have such an amazing student starting in the lab
January 2020
So much fun attending the 2020 GRC on Predator-Prey Interactions
Michael will be co-chairing (along side Dr. Bridie Allan) the 2024 meeting!
November 2019
New population science article out on a paper led by colleague Jerod Merkle about way in which science and management need to work together. https://wildlife.org/qa-reconnecting-wildlife-managers-and-researchers/
October 2019
Welcome to Eleanor DiNuzzo and Sarah Donelan for a brief but intense visit
So sad to see Louis Hunninck leave. What a great and productive time!
September 2019
Off to Finland to sit as an opponent to Joannes Van Cann dissertation!
The start of a new semester and teaching a new course in Ecology and Evolution - the course that got me first interested in Ecology!
July 2019
Louis Hunninck has joined us once again to finish off his PhD investigating the interactive consequences of climate-induced reductions in vegetation and human disturbance in free-living impala.
May 2019
Two new students, Leah McKay and Miles Valchar, have joined the lab to pursue their Master's Degree.
Southern Mountain Caribou research project got funded!!
March 2019
Microbiome - predation risk project got funded!
June 2018
We moved!! The Sheriff Lab has a new home at UMass Dartmouth.
October 2017
Look for new papers coming out from our lab; Kirsty Macleod just had accepted a ms on predation risk and lethality in snowshoe hares, we just had another on snow cover impacts on arctic ground squirrel function and fitness.
We also just had the Pan European Network put our work on their website! see links below.
September 2017
The lab was feature in a profile piece in the Pan European Network Science and Technology magazine - see links below.
We made the NSF.gov front page ticker tape!
August 2017
Welcome to the lab Louis Hunninck (new PhD student) and Wilderson Medina (new MSc student)!
Welcome back to the lab Elyse McMahon who will be returning as a PhD student!
June 2017
Amy Shipley has arrived and is busy freezing, grinding, and analyzing grouse poo!
Dr. Sheriff and the lab are on Twitter, @SheriffLab
May 2017
Congratulations to Lauren Cherry our most recent graduate!!
Jen Heppner was awarded the Erickson Discover Grant!
Welcome to undergraduate researchers Destini Acosta and Hunter Kauffman to the lab.
March 2017
Michael has been invited to speak at the upcoming Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions (https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=16781)!
Elyse McMahon will be starting a Phd investigating the interactive effects of fear and fire, beginning in September!
Congrats to Michaela, 2nd place in the graduate poster competition at the recent Texas Chapter TWS meeting.
Look for new papers coming out from our lab; Kirsty Macleod just had accepted a ms on predation risk and lethality in snowshoe hares, we just had another on snow cover impacts on arctic ground squirrel function and fitness.
We also just had the Pan European Network put our work on their website! see links below.
September 2017
The lab was feature in a profile piece in the Pan European Network Science and Technology magazine - see links below.
We made the NSF.gov front page ticker tape!
August 2017
Welcome to the lab Louis Hunninck (new PhD student) and Wilderson Medina (new MSc student)!
Welcome back to the lab Elyse McMahon who will be returning as a PhD student!
June 2017
Amy Shipley has arrived and is busy freezing, grinding, and analyzing grouse poo!
Dr. Sheriff and the lab are on Twitter, @SheriffLab
May 2017
Congratulations to Lauren Cherry our most recent graduate!!
Jen Heppner was awarded the Erickson Discover Grant!
Welcome to undergraduate researchers Destini Acosta and Hunter Kauffman to the lab.
March 2017
Michael has been invited to speak at the upcoming Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions (https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=16781)!
Elyse McMahon will be starting a Phd investigating the interactive effects of fear and fire, beginning in September!
Congrats to Michaela, 2nd place in the graduate poster competition at the recent Texas Chapter TWS meeting.
December 2016
Michael will be giving the Bartholomew Plenary Lecture this year at SICB.
Welcome Michaela to the lab for the next month!
Michael will be giving the Bartholomew Plenary Lecture this year at SICB.
Welcome Michaela to the lab for the next month!
June 2016
While the lab comes and goes for the summer, Michael and his family are off to Israel. Michael is an invited Fellow to the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University.
May 2016
School's out for the summer!! And only days later Kirsty, David, Dustin, and Cam have all left for Solon Dixon to catch lizards. While Cate has taken off to Argentina to continue her work with vicunas and pumas.
April 2016
David and Dustin organized and ran Lizards on the Lawn at the 2016 Arbor Day. An outreach program ran by the Penn State Arboretum.
Welcome Kirsty MacLeod, newest member of the Sheriff lab. Kirsty joins us after a PhD with Tim Clutton-Brock and a post-doc with Rose Thorogood.
January 2016
Just returned from the GRC Predator-Prey Interactions- an amazing group of people!
November 18, 2015
I am currently looking for a PhD student to investigate fear and fire interactions and Post-doctoral fellow to investigate maternal stress effects! Please email me for more information.
September 29-30, 2015
Dr. Sheriff and the Polar Center will be hosting Dr. Brian Barnes. He will be speaking at the Foster Auditorium (Penn State) from 4-5pm on Tuesday, Sept. 29.
September 15, 2015
New Polar Center Video on youtube!
September 1, 2015
Welcome to Dustin Owen (PhD student co-advised with Tracy Langkilde) and Michaela Rice (MSc student co-advised with Randall DeYoung and David Hewitt)
April 29th 2015
DISCOVER Magazine Science for the Curious blogger and science writer Elizabeth Preston covers our latest paper on the snowshoe hare low phase.
While the lab comes and goes for the summer, Michael and his family are off to Israel. Michael is an invited Fellow to the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University.
May 2016
School's out for the summer!! And only days later Kirsty, David, Dustin, and Cam have all left for Solon Dixon to catch lizards. While Cate has taken off to Argentina to continue her work with vicunas and pumas.
April 2016
David and Dustin organized and ran Lizards on the Lawn at the 2016 Arbor Day. An outreach program ran by the Penn State Arboretum.
Welcome Kirsty MacLeod, newest member of the Sheriff lab. Kirsty joins us after a PhD with Tim Clutton-Brock and a post-doc with Rose Thorogood.
January 2016
Just returned from the GRC Predator-Prey Interactions- an amazing group of people!
November 18, 2015
I am currently looking for a PhD student to investigate fear and fire interactions and Post-doctoral fellow to investigate maternal stress effects! Please email me for more information.
September 29-30, 2015
Dr. Sheriff and the Polar Center will be hosting Dr. Brian Barnes. He will be speaking at the Foster Auditorium (Penn State) from 4-5pm on Tuesday, Sept. 29.
September 15, 2015
New Polar Center Video on youtube!
September 1, 2015
Welcome to Dustin Owen (PhD student co-advised with Tracy Langkilde) and Michaela Rice (MSc student co-advised with Randall DeYoung and David Hewitt)
April 29th 2015
DISCOVER Magazine Science for the Curious blogger and science writer Elizabeth Preston covers our latest paper on the snowshoe hare low phase.
March 30 - April 1 2015
Dr. Sheriff and the Wildlife Society Penn State Student Chapter host Jon Pauli. Amazing talk and a great few days!!
Dr. Sheriff and the Wildlife Society Penn State Student Chapter host Jon Pauli. Amazing talk and a great few days!!
March 26th, 2015
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March 17th, 2015
Dr. Sheriff's research is highlighted by the Polar Center, and squirrel body temperature data are made into music!
Penn State News Check out the article!
The Daily Collegian Check out ANOTHER one!!
February 21st, 2015
In part due to her work in the remote Andes, Cate Pritchard is now a member of the Explorers Club, NYC, an interdisciplinary society which encourages exploration for research.
January 28th, 2015
Dr. Sheriff named to Oecologia Editorial Board as Handling Editor for Terrestrial Vertebrate Ecology
Dr. Sheriff's research is highlighted by the Polar Center, and squirrel body temperature data are made into music!
Penn State News Check out the article!
The Daily Collegian Check out ANOTHER one!!
February 21st, 2015
In part due to her work in the remote Andes, Cate Pritchard is now a member of the Explorers Club, NYC, an interdisciplinary society which encourages exploration for research.
January 28th, 2015
Dr. Sheriff named to Oecologia Editorial Board as Handling Editor for Terrestrial Vertebrate Ecology
January 2015
Congratulations to Shebly Harkless and Lexi Riehl who were both awarded the College of Ag. Sci. Undergraduate Research awards!
Congratulations to Shebly Harkless and Lexi Riehl who were both awarded the College of Ag. Sci. Undergraduate Research awards!
October 2014
Shelby Harkless and Elyse McMahon each presented excellent posters of their work in the Sheriff Lab at the Wildlife Society Annual Conference in Pittsburg, PA. Great job ladies!
September 2014
Dr. Sheriff's Conservation Biology class makes news, as students enhance habitat for wildlife near restored creek.
Shelby Harkless and Elyse McMahon each presented excellent posters of their work in the Sheriff Lab at the Wildlife Society Annual Conference in Pittsburg, PA. Great job ladies!
September 2014
Dr. Sheriff's Conservation Biology class makes news, as students enhance habitat for wildlife near restored creek.